(19)
(11) EP 2 587 447 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
23.10.2013 Bulletin 2013/43

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.05.2013 Bulletin 2013/18

(21) Application number: 12186193.4

(22) Date of filing: 26.09.2012
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G06Q 50/18(2012.01)
 G06Q 10/06(2012.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME

(30) Priority: 26.09.2011 US 201161539265 P

(71) Applicant: Verisign, Inc.
Reston, VA 20190 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Veeramachaneni, Srikanth
    Reston, WA Washington 20190 (US)
  • Shorter, William
    Reston, VA Virginia 20190 (US)
  • Gould, James
    Reston, VA Virginia 20190 (US)

(74) Representative: Benson, Christopher et al
Harrison Goddard Foote LLP 4th Floor Merchant Exchange 17-19 Whitworth Street West
Manchester M1 5WG
Manchester M1 5WG (GB)

   


(54) Protecting intellectual property rights across namespaces


(57) Systems, methods, and apparatuses consistent with the invention relate to protecting namespaces. In one exemplary implementation, the systems, methods, and apparatuses may validate whether or not there is consistency of sponsorship between a first namespace and a second namespace grouped with the first namespace, and perform an action related to the first namespace if there is consistency of sponsorship.







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